Today we are going to DO IT AGAIN ---with Bricks in the Barnyard from Scraps & Shirttails II!

It’s my last teaching day in Texas – we’ve been going strong for a week --- it’s flown by so fast and we’ve enjoyed every minute of it, even if the weather has proved it to be the coldest January I’ve ever spent in Texas!

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Woo Hoo . . . TONS of room to groove and let those strings fly!! Now I want to make this quilt too. I know there are plenty of scraps to start all your projects . . . time to go prepare my papers!! LOL

Looks like everybody made sure to pull out their vintage machines for the 'queen of the vintage machines'! They know you'll appreciate them. Loved the slide show---looks like a nice big rooms, lots of happy women, and some great work was done!

Thank you, Bonnie! I love seeing those old machines. I'm amazed at how many of them look brand new. I guess many people who received sewing machines did not like to sew.Is the Virginia bound pattern one from String Fling? It's the only one of your books I don't have yet, but it looks like a great, easy pattern to put a dent in my bag of uneven strips.

Lots of beautiful string blocks, but I especially love the ones made from shirts!We used Singer Touch 'n Sews in Home Ec. They were all the rage at the time--or so they told us. : )My vintage Bernina is too heavy to take anywhere!!

I love this pattern, but do not have enough "natural" strings to make it. (I've been making a basket weave quilt which has used up almost my entire stash of strips.) So I guess I'll either have to cut up some deliberate strings or else make more regular quilts first to generate more of the "natural" ones.

While looking at the slide show, I got to wondering how many people in the class were using "natural" strings and how many were cutting up strings just for this project.

to amidthismomentThe free arm is like the one on the tan Bernina--#11 in the slide show, I think. It is the "skinny" arm that allows one to sew on small around items like sleeves, etc. unlike the wide flat bed of a machine.

My Bernina 801 made in Switzerland too, looks just like the two in your post. It is sitting on the table now and I sew on it regularly - its a real workhorse. It is free arm and super heavy, so I don't take it anywhere! I bought it in 1980 and paid an arm & a leg for it, but ist been worth every cent I spent. As for learning to sew - I learnt on a Singer treadle. It was heaven when I finally badgered my mum into buying an electric machine. It was a Singer too, but goodness knows what model number.

I only have my Bernina 830 that was their 50th anniversary machine. This was the only thing that I owned when I married my husband 29 years ago. It still works just as it did back in 1982. I have sewed many things on this machine my Wedding dress and my daughter’s veil. Would love a new one (the 1008 as it is not so computerized) but alas this holds to many memories and works well.

Classes on Jan. 4 & 5 were so much fun! Met lots of sweet ladies and had a blast working on our quilts. Thank you, Bonnie, for teaching us so many tips and new techniques. I had such a great time and learned so much!Hope you are back next Jan. This makes 2 years in a row for me to take your Jan. classes. On a row now, looking forward to 2014 classes.Thank you.Teresa without an "h" Ha!!